Carolina Climbers Coalition

The land owner has always asked that no camping is allowed anywhere around Rumbling Bald. This includes the road into the parking area. The land owner forked over a lot of his own money to create the road access we enjoy so let the word out that there is absolutely NO CAMPING at Rumbling Bald. Please check-out the many camping areas around Lake Lure.

Visit this link for camping info:
http://www.lake-lure.com/campgrounds.html

To help out with saving this precious climbing resource, please consider a Joining the CCC or renewing you membership.

Rumbling Bald is well on its way to becoming Hickory Nut Gorge State Park. The property holding the cliff faces and boulders is slowly but surely getting bought up by the TNC in advance of transferring it to the state. So while the parking areas and most of the climbing and bouldering is now out of private hands and protected, the CCC asks that you help out as much as possible with future access. Please follow the simple ideals below.

• Leave No trace. Pack out what you pack in. Pick up trash from others
• NO camping at the parking lot or at the crags
• Be courteous and respectful of non-climbers that you see on the mountain
• Patronize local shops and restaurants. Let them know that you are a climber. We need to make the locals undestand that climbers and other outdoors types are a valuable source of tourist dollars.
• Donate to the CCC's ongoing campaign to help out with making the Bald a state park

Directions:

(From Brevard), take US Highway 64 east through Hendersonville. Keep going as you cross I-26 and continue until you reach the town of Bat Cave. Here, US 64 joins US 74 as you turn to the right. Proceed to the towns of Chimney Rock and Lake Lure. This is a popular tourist route in the summer, so be prepared for slow going. As you pass through Chimney Rock and into Lake Lure, look for Boys Camp Road on your left. If you go across a bridge and see a bathing beach on your left, you've gone too far. Take Boys Camp road about 1.5 miles to the top of a ridge. On your left, look for a newly graveled road (thank you Access Fund). Follow this road a short distance to the first parking area. You can continue farther, but the parking gets more difficult.

(From Columbia, SC) (I-26 via I-95 for Floridians): Continue on I-26 toward Greenville / Spartanburg. Just after reaching the NC border, look for exit 36, SR 108 to Columbus/Chimney Rock/Lake Lure. Turn right on SR 108 and continue for about 4 miles. When you reach an intersection with SR 9, follow the signs to Lake Lure (left). Continue for another 10 miles until you come down a hill and see Lake Lure. Go left on Highway 64/74/9 for 4 miles, passing a bathing beach and marina on your right. Take Boys Camp Road on your right and follow the directions above.

Click Here for a map.

A new guidebook to bouldering at Rumbling Bald will become available Fall 2007 at various retailers across the Southeast. Features include an full color format, nearly 900 boulder problems described, topos and photos of problems, and general area-specific information.

For more information, Click Here

**This is presented for informational purposes only, and is not endorsed or being solicited by the CCC.